LIFT News

LIFT Staff Farewell – September 2023 (L-R) Esteban Powell and Poppi Fella Pellegrino September 1, 2023 Best Wishes to Summer Staff Esteban Powell and Poppi Fella Pellegrino LIFT would like to thank Esteban Powell and Poppi Fella Pellegrino for all their work this summer in their Canada Summer Jobs positions. Esteban worked in the Technical Department assisting Robin Riad, Karl Reinsal”… more

LIFT Staffing Updates – September 2023 September 1, 2023 Special Projects Coordinator Helen Lee In the aftermath of our very successful Analogue Resilience Film Labs Gathering back in May, we are happy to announce that Helen Lee will be continuing in her role at LIFT as Special Projects Coordinator, for the foreseeable future. Over this past summer, she has been spearheading future proj”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Labour Day – Sep 4 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Labour Day on Monday, September 4th, 2023. We will reopen on Tuesday, September 5th at 10:00am ET. Have a rejuvenating and safe holiday.

Friday, August 18 – Open Screening July 26, 2023 Call for Submissions: Open Screening Join the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) on Friday, August 18, 2023 in the Main Classroom at LIFT (1137 Dupont) for our Summer Open Screening, an evening of oddball films, experiments, found footage and works in progress. UPDATE – Submissions are now closed! We have reached our”… more

LIFT co-presents “Bageroo Program #1 and “Bageroo Program #3” at the8Fest Friday 28 July 2023, 20:00 to 22:30 “kauaʻi ʻōʻō” by Samy Benammar . LIFT co-presents “Bageroo Program #1” and “Bageroo Program #3″ at the8fest Small Gauge Film Festival 2023 Bageroo Program #1: We Were, We Are, We Will Be Friday, July 28, 2023 Starts at 8:00pm In this shorts program, filmmakers reflect on themselves, their surroundings, and others around them. These shorts recall th”… more

Applications are now open for the 2023 LIFT Production and Post-Production Support Grant July 24, 2023 Applications are now open for the 2023 LIFT Production and Post-Production Support Grant! After a five year hiatus, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT) Production and Post-Production Support Grant returned last year in 2022. Between 2005 – 2016, LIFT’s Support Grant provided $2,000 in equipment credits per filmma”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Simcoe Day – Aug 7 The LIFT office and store will be closed for Simcoe Day—also known as Civic Holiday—on Monday, August 7, 2023. Staff will be available starting back on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 10:00am ET. Please take a moment to review our current operations and facilities protocols. Have a happy and safe holiday!

LIFT co-presents “Anthropo-Digitalism” at Vector Festival Thursday 6 July 2023, 00:00 to 00:00 LIFT co-presents Anthropo-Digitalism at the 2023 Vector Festival Multi-site Exhibition running  July 6 – 16, 2023 How does the digital (re)animate our environments? How do we imprint our humanness upon the digital, and how does digitalness imprint upon us humans? Ruminate on your human/digital reflections with the anthropomorphic inventions of Mari”… more

LIFT Welcomes Summer Staff – June 2023 (L-R) Esteban Powell and Poppi Fella Pellegrino June 29, 2023 Welcome to Summer 2023 Staff Thanks to the Canada Summer Job program, supported by the Canadian Government, we are able to welcome two summer staff to LIFT this summer. Esteban Powell is our Technical Assistant this summer at LIFT. Esteban will be assisting our Technical team, Robin Riad”… more

LIFT Office and Store Closed for Canada Day – July 3 “FlightStop” by Michael Snow . The LIFT office and store will be closed for the statutory holiday Canada Day (July 1st) on Monday, July 3, 2023. Staff will be available starting back on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 10:00am ET. Please take a moment to review our current operations and facilities protocols. Have a happy and safe holiday!